6 Best PDF Page Cropping Tools For Linux

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a well known and possibly the most used file format today, specifically for presenting and sharing documents reliably, independent of software, hardware, or more so, operating system.

It has become the De Facto Standard for electronic documents, especially on the Internet. Because of this reason, and increased electronic information sharing, many people today get useful information in PDF documents.

2. PDF Quench

PDF Quench is a graphical Python application for cropping pages in PDF files.

PDF Quench Editor

It enables users to crop pages with correct rotation, defines PDF crop box to the same position as meda box, this helps to deal with the issue of cropping the 2nd time.

3. PDF Shuffler

PDF-Shuffler is a small, simple and free python-gtk application, it’s a graphical wrapper for python-pyPdf.

PDF Shuffler Editor

With PDF-Shuffler, you can merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical user interface.

4. Krop

Krop is a simple, free graphical user interface (GUI) application used to crop PDF file pages. It is written in Python and works only on Linux systems.

Krop PDF Editor

It depends on PyQT, python-poppler-qt4 and pyPdf or PyPDF2 to offer its full functionality. One of its other main feature is it automatically splits pages into multiple subpages to fit the limited screen size of devices such as eReaders.

5. Briss

Briss a simple, free cross-platform program for cropping PDF files, it works on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX.

Briss PDF Editor

Its remarkable feature is a straightforward graphical user interface, which allows you to define exactly the crop-region by fitting a rectangle on the visually overlaid pages, and other useful attributes.

6. PDFCrop

PDFCrop is a PDF page cropping application for Linux systems written in Perl. It requires ghostscript (for finding the borders of the PDF’s bounding box) and PDFedit (for cropping and resizing the pages) applications to be installed on the system.

It enables you to crop the white margins of PDF pages, and rescales them to fit a standard size sheet of paper; the resultant page is more readable and eye-catching after printing.

It is predominantly useful to academics, enabling them to print downloaded journal articles in an appealing manner. PDFCrop is also used by those who receive PDF documents structured for letter size paper, however need to print the pages on A4 paper (or vice versa).

That’s all! in this article, we listed the 6 best PDF page cropping tools with the key features for Linux systems. Is there any tool we have not mentioned here, share it with us in the comments.

Aaron Kili is a Linux and F.O.S.S enthusiast, an upcoming Linux SysAdmin, web developer, and currently a content creator for TecMint who loves working with computers and strongly believes in sharing knowledge.

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